[quote=Eugene]
Okay, so how would it work if 80% of parents in the county (130,000 high school students) take their vouchers to Torrey Pines and Westview (combined capacity – 6,000 students)?[/quote]
I’m thinking a long the line of your second option, which is a lottery. Do you think parents who do not care about their kids’ education would take advantage of the voucher system? I personally think it would be the parents who do care that will take full advantage of it.
[quote=Eugene]We’re not in Finland, Dorothy. Schools are not to blame for their poor scores. It’s all demographics.[/quote]
Schools are not to blame? How very convenient. How about everyone is to blame. Parents and schools. We’re not Finland and we are more diverse, but please tell me what incentive does a teacher/school have in improving and helping good students excel instead of just bringing up the median and neglecting the smart kids. There are many things wrong with our school system. If you don’t think it’s a problem, then there should be no reason to fix it. That would mean you’re happy with the current result of the schools in SDUSD? I’m not, and I think many are not too, that’s why they move to other districts so they don’t have to send their kids to SDUSD.
[quote=Eugene]Some north county schools may be overcrowded because more than a third of their population comes from south of the 8.
Even with busing, average class size is 19 students in Madison High, 22 students in LJ High, 24 students in Clairemont/University City/Point Loma High. Post split these numbers would go to 12, 14 and 16. MMHS and SRHS are the only schools in the “coastal” district that qualify as overcrowded.
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You’re assuming we have to run the school at full capacity? Why can’t we not just not use 1/3 of those class rooms or find better use for them? Why not expand the schools that keep more capacity and downsize the schools that don’t need that capacity anymore? IIRC, Lincoln was a complete tear down and rebuilt, right? Not just expansion?
